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Episode Description: Sean Murphy leads two lucid guided meditations on “stepping through the door,” into focused stillness on the one hand (concentration) and into unbounded, egoless expanse on the other (insight). He offers tips for noticing this quiet expanse in any state of mind. It’s perhaps analogous to shifting the gaze onto negative space, or noticing […]

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Episode Description: Roshi Norman opens the Summer Practice Period with this week’s dharma talk on the dreamlike quality of zazen, practice period, and life itself. He discusses the famous case of the founder of Soto Zen in China Dongshan’s departure from his master Yunyan. When the student asked what the essence of his master’s teaching was, […]

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Recently Roshi Joan and Upaya Zen Center launched a Google+ Community on Engaged Buddhism. Please visit & join this growing and active community. Episode Description: In this talk Dr. Loy discusses the necessity for bringing the western and Buddhist traditions together in order to address the challenges currently faced throughout the world. The highest ideal of […]

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UPDATE Sep 21, 2012: Dharma podcast survey is now closed. Your participation is deeply appreciated. Episode Description: Eido Roshi shares stories, from Homer to Frederick Douglass to Holocaust survivors, highlighting the power of imagination and its relationship to buddha nature. She also reflects on the role of women in Buddhism and Zen Master Dogen’s opinion […]

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Episode Description: Roshi Eido Frances Carney reflects on the Buddhist category of “craving/desire” by exploring the nature of appetite; she begins with a tale from the native peoples of the Queen Charlotte Islands and ends in early 19th century Japan with the life and poetry of the hermit-monk Ryokan, in whose lineage she teaches. Teacher […]

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Sensei Beate Stolte talks about “Balancing the mind and the five hindrances.” Explores the importance of cultivating concentration so that insight can arise. Discusses the five mental factors in relationship to the five hindrances and the importance of the first jhana (level of concentration). “Meditation is a dynamic experience, not a linear progression.”

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This retreat will be dedicated to the “Four Foundations of Mindfulness,” the fundamental Buddhist teaching for cultivating insight. The four foundations of mindfulness are very basic and profound Buddhist teachings. During these practice days we will study mindfulness through Buddhist texts, the practice of zazen (sitting meditation), kinhin (walking meditation), chanting services and one hour […]

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This retreat will be dedicated to the “Four Foundations of Mindfulness,” the fundamental Buddhist teaching for cultivating insight. The four foundations of mindfulness are very basic and profound Buddhist teachings. During these practice days we will study mindfulness through Buddhist texts, the practice of zazen (sitting meditation), kinhin (walking meditation), chanting services and one hour […]

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Speaker: Martine Batchelor Martine begins the talk urging us to look at our motivation for awakening. Is it done with wisdom and compassion or perhaps with the goal to escape from the world? She discusses sudden vs. gradual awakening and working with bad habits. She goes on to discuss the role of insight in our […]

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Speaker: Sean Murphy We must be able to live in paradox, which is the expression of two realities. Our practice can lead to insight, from which the miracle of life appears. Then, taking insight back onto the cushion furthers the practice. However, like the Buddha, we must go beyond technique and practice and integrate insight […]